Pictures: Christmas In Newtown

MARK MIRKO, Hartford Courant

Eustaquio Pena wipes a tear from his eye while walking through a display of Christmas trees set up outside Sandy Hook Elementary school in honor of the 20 children slain during the Dec. 14 shooting rampage. Pena and his family brought bags of presents for each child and spread them out on the ground as a memorial. "We cannot do anything about what happened," said Pena's brother, Luiz Fernandes, "But we can try to make people a little happier."

At a Sandy Hook memorial in front of St. Rose of Lima Church, Scoop Carlile kisses his son Cooper Carlile, 10, after Cooper placed dozens of cards from his fellow students at Pope John Paul II school in Houston.